Global equity analysis of how climate pledges stack up against the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5°C
New report released at COP29
The 2024 Civil Society Equity Review
FAIR SHARES, FINANCE, TRANSFORMATION
Fair Shares Assessment, Equitable Fossil Fuel Phase Out, And Public Finance of a Just Global Climate Stabilization
In this report, we detail the profound damage caused by the Global North’s unwillingness to do their fair share of climate effort, especially related to climate finance, and how that damage is further exacerbated by the organized obstructionism of the fossil fuel industry and the parasitism of the global rich.
We show in detail that there is plenty of money to fund a just, ambitious, effective and equitable global climate transition, even without implementing the deep systemic changes that are also needed.
The report also details these badly needed system change reforms, divided into more immediate reforms and the longer term objectives, needed to actually allow the world to address growing inequities and stop the climate crisis.
Building on previous Civil Society Equity Reviews, the 2024 report includes:
An updated look at NDCs for 2035, including key fossil fuel phaseout demands for the next round of NDCs,
An examination of the danger of developed countries falling so far short of their fair shares, especially their unwillingness to engage with climate finance discussions on the needed scale of trillions not billions,
Discusses that the money for climate finance is available and several areas for possible funding,
The need for system change, with reforms divided between the short term and the long term, needed in order to fully transition away from the fossil fuel addicted and increasingly inequitable society we have today.
“The Global North’s negotiators are refusing to engage with numbers of this scale, and by so doing are playing a very dangerous game. In this refusal, they imagine themselves realists, but they are in fact refusing to engage with numbers that have real empirical bases, and by so doing are endangering the UNFCCC regime and, indeed, the entire multilateral system, not to mention any remaining possibility of a stable climate and all that depends on it. True realism lies in the recognition that we actually have the money to save ourselves, and that the reallocation and redistribution of that money is now an existential necessity.”
A Decade of Equity Reviews
In the period leading up to the 2015 Paris climate summit, we came together to conduct a civil society equity review of the emissions reductions pledges that countries were putting on the table there; over 150 organizations endorsed our review. Since then we have released a series of major reports at each of the UN Climate Talks – analysing whether the climate commitments, finance pledges and fossil fuel phase out plans that Parties had promised are ambitious enough and tolerably fair.
Since 2015, over 600 distinct organizations have endorsed our reports.
Click on a report below to download.
Who we are
As social movements, environmental and development NGOs, trade unions, faith and other civil society groups, we have come together to assess the climate commitments that have been put on the table through the UN climate negotiations.
We seek to identify which countries are offering to do their fair share, which need to do more, and present recommendations on how to close the emissions gap.
Are countries Doing their
Fair Share?
This video explains the assessment methodology that is used by the annual Civil Society Equity Reviews in our assessment of whether countries climate action pledges are consistent with their fair share of global climate action.
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